Caltech

British  

/ ˈkælˌtɛk /

noun

1. the California Institute of Technology

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Example Sentences

Elin o’Hara slavick labored over an expansive series of photochemical drawings of every above-ground nuclear test — 528 in total, a selection of which are featured in the exhibit— on salvaged darkroom paper from Caltech, the institution that played a role in developing the detonators for the U.S. nuclear bombs dropped on Japan under the top secret Project Camel.

From Los Angeles Times

Slavick said she found the abandoned silver-gelatin paper, which was fogged despite being stored in closed boxes, in the basement of the university near a door labeled “Radiation Science,” which led her to believe radiation exposure from Caltech’s Manhattan Project past distorted the photographic paper.

From Los Angeles Times

In 1931, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein was spending his first winter at Caltech, and he wrote to a friend, “Here in Pasadena, it is like Paradise. Always sunshine and clear air …”

From Los Angeles Times

Arie Haagen-Smit, the Caltech smog prof, imagined in the 1950s that clean-running cars were imminent, “exhaust devices, catalytic devices … and maybe we start putting them in the cars in 1962 and maybe 1965.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Caltech biochemist Arie Haagen-Smit, “Dr. Haagen-Smog,” who proved the connection between cars and smog, laid out the psychology of crisis 50 years ago, “The public wants clean air. Yes, they want clean air — if they don’t have to go to too much trouble.”

From Los Angeles Times